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Dying Wisdom: Rise, Fall and Potential of India's Traditional Water Harvesting System represents among the biggest efforts in recent decades to comprehensively document India's millennia-old wisdom in water management. Released in 11 regions across India, this influential book triggered a nation-wide interest in community-based water management systems.[BOOKS CO-EDITED]
Making Water Everybody’s Business: Practice and policy of water harvesting continues where the book Dying Wisdom: Rise, fall and potential of India’s traditional water harvesting systems finished. It documents traditions, practices technologies and policies of water harvesting in the country. It also assesses state government efforts to deal with drought. The book has a clear message for the thirsty times ahead: Water must be made everybody's business.[BOOKS CO-EDITED]
About Sunita Narain [Director of CSE]
FOR HER FULL BIO-DATA CHECK-http://www.cseindia.org/aboutus/sn_biodata.htm
FOR INFORMATION ON THE BOOKS & VIDEOS AT CSE CHECK:http://csestore.cse.org.in/
ARTICLES by SUNITHA NARAIN:
1) Pact Politics: Sunita Narain on the Kyoto Protocol click here -
Related Links:
One of the Links from CSE leads to RAINWATER HARVESTING.ORG
Some Practitioners of Rainwater Harvesting in Bangalore
S Vishwanath
Rainwater Club
264, 6th Main, 6th Block, BEL Layout
Vidyaranyapura
Bangalore 560097
Tel: 080- 3641690, 3642435
Email: chitravishwanath@vsnl.com
Website: www.rainwaterclub.org
I have visited this organisation ; little about them: CHITRA VISHWANATH is an architect who practices the laurie baker style of construction ,working with locally available,sustainable technologies has done a lot of work in & around the office area & S Vishwanath is involved with the RAINWATER CLUB,which provides help to organisations & individuals who are interested in the said system.
http://www.rainwaterclub.org/
Bhaskar Sharma
Managing Partner
Bisineer India (MAZLE)
No. 192/1, Shop No 3, 10th Cross, Wilson Garden
Bangalore - 560027
Tel: 080-2222859
Email: bhaskar_sharma@yahoo.com
A R Shivakumar
Senior Fellow
Indo Norwegian Environment Programme
Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology
Indian Institue of Science
Bangalore 560012
Tel: 080-3461221, 3341652
Fax: 080-3348840
Email: norad@bgl.vsnl.net.in
For more contacts check: http://www.rainwaterharvesting.org/Urban/Practices-and-practitioners.htm#bang
Barefoot College and other development efforts in the field of public water supplies.
click the link to search the articles & papers regarding the above mentioned
http://www.barefootcollege.org/html/resources-water.htm
ABOUT BUNKER ROY:
1)Bunker Roy wins the St Andrews's Prize
May 22, 03 -- NewsClip::Events
St Andrew's is Britain's largest prize for environment. In its fifth
year,
the $30,000 prize has been given to Bunker Roy for his work with
'barefoot
technicians'.
Sanjit 'Bunker' Roy is a product of Doon School and St.Stephen's College, Delhi. He quit his job with Grindlays Bank over three decades ago and has ever since been at work educating, empowering rural people. In 1972 he founded the Barefoot College in Tilonia, in Rajasthan's Ajmer district. He focuses on imparting employment generating, modern skills to illiterates and school drop outs.
FULL ARTICLE ONhttp://www.goodnewsindia.com/Pages/content/newsclip/story/88_0_2_0_C/
"In over 25 years we have had many many ideas which
have generated from the community and incorporated into our planning
process
of the Barefoot College."
"The Barefoot Teachers, the Barefoot Engineers - all these people are not really paper qualified to do the job."
Bunker Roy
Director, Barefoot College
1)UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME:
http://www.unep.org/desertification/successstories/19.htm
2) Snapshots of UNDP Associate Administrator Dr. Zéphirin Diabré's Visit to Tilonia (Rajasthan) on 2nd November 1999.
http://www.undp.org.in/pgallery/home.htm
3)AGA KHAN DEVELOPMENT NETWORK
http://www.akdn.org/agency/akaa/eighthcycle/page_03txt.htm
2) SANJIT BUNKER ROY
Educator Sanjit Bunker Roy has found that tapping local wisdom and initiative can help villagers achieve empowerment
When Sanjit Bunker Roy came face to face with a devastating famine that killed thousands in the Indian state of Bihar over 30 years ago, his vocation was suddenly sealed. It would not be in the city but in the countryside, it would not be in the upper echelons of the civil service but at the grassroots, with the village people.
Since founding the Social Work and Research Centre in 1972, Roy has been living in Tilonia, a village in one of India’s largest, driest and poorest states, Rajasthan. Better known as the Barefoot College1, the centre has trained two generations of villagers without any formal paper qualifications to become health-care workers, solar engineers, hand-pump mechanics and teachers in their communities.
FULL ARTICLE ON:http://www.universalrights.net/heroes/display.php3?id=88
The work of Tarun Bharat Sangh, and it's founder Rajendra Singh in the districts of Rajasthan can easily be over-simplified as water-shed management whereas, it is in fact a revolution in regenerating life and society in denuded and deserted lands.
It's a
seemingly simple two-step programme.
First, revive vegetation on barren hill slopes and second, build
small
water catchments in the valleys and the plains.
FOR FULL TEXT
:http://www.goodnewsindia.com/Pages/content/inspirational/tbs.html
CONTACT:
Tarun Bharat Sangh
Tarun Ashram
Bhikampura
Kishoree
Via Thangazi
District Alwar
Rajasthan - 301022
tel: +91-1465-225043
email: rajendrasingh@tarunbharatsangh.org OR watermantbs@yahoo.com
RELATED LINKS:
1) JAL BHAGIRATHI FOUNDATION
http://www.jalbhagirathi.org/jbf_tbs.htm
2) Issue-wise details of Books and
Documents
reviewed by CatchWater http://www.rainwaterharvesting.org/resources/books.htm
BOOK: Water
Harvesting and Sustainable Supply in India BY R.N. Athavale
This book will be of interest and
immense
practical value to scientists, NGOs, government officials and community
users.
FOR DETAILS CHECK:http://www.envirodebate.net/books.asp?qsBookId=10
About R.N.Athavale [Geophysics
Insitute, Hyderabad]
Dr. R. N.
Athavale, an Emeritus Scientist with the Council of Scientific and
Industrial
Research, is a pioneer in water harvesting with over forty years’
research
experience in fields such as isotope hydrology, natural and artificial
recharge
of aquifers and sustainable supply of potable water. He has worked at
the
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, the University of Copenhagen,
the
International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid tropics and the
National Geophysical Research Institute. Dr. Athavale has published150
research papers
and reports in national and international journals.
E-MAIL
athavale_rn@satyam.net.in
He is also a member of rainwaterharvesting.org
He is
resource
person at KRG-RAINWATER
HARVESTING
FOUNDATION http://www.krg-rainwater.com/team.htm
We have solved many a typical water problem related to industries,
institutions and
residences through
Rainwater Harvesting.
KRG RAINWATER HARVESTING
FOUNDATION
A-84/2, Bharani Kailash Apartments,
Anna Nagar East, Chennai 600 102
Landmark: Near Roundtana
INDIA
Ph: 044- 2621 5060/554 93117
Mobile: 98410 45666, 310 43522, 98404 82821
E-mail:
krgrainwaterharvesting@rediffmail.com
The Association of Hydrologists of India (AHI) was initiated in 1981 with the objectives of providing a common platform to all the scientists belonging to the subjects of geology, geophysics, geohydrology, metereology, engineering, remote sensing, geochemistry, social scientists and the like interested in fostering, developing and adapting new techniques in conserving water resources and distributing them equitably over the surface of the earth.
the link below goes to the executive members of the association.
http://www.appliedhydrology.org/executivecommittee.html
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Landscape Architects, Environmental
Planners
901 Panchtirth, Opp. A
ristroville, Sa tellite Road,
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Telefax : 91(79) 2692-3054
91(79)
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mail@landscapeindia.net
Fax:2327946
P S Ratnakumar
Fax : 091 044 4661115 E-Mail : info@rmans.com
Mr. K. Raghuraman, 52, C.P. Ramaswamy Road, Alwarpet, Chennai 600 018. Phone : 091 044 4994569, 091 04 4982512
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Fax: 91-40-24755095
Email: info@architectsatelier.com
Architects Atelier was established, in Hyderabad A P., in 1985 by its Principal Architect Praveen Tayal. His works stems from the belief that most architectural responses should be both technically and socially relevant to their time and place - a result of extensive research involving the analysis of public image, appropriate technologies and construct ability.
Our firm includes architects, graphic designers, industrial designers, landscape architects and other professionals. Our collective skills enable us to comprehensively develop sophisticated buildings and structures, produce master plans, and design parks and urban open spaces. Research, innovation and participation are integral to our design process. We learn from each project and use that learning to improve our methods and processes on the next.